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The Outsiders Chapters 7-12

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7th Grade

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The Outsiders Chapters 7-12
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This quiz covers S.E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders," specifically focusing on the climactic chapters 7-12, and is appropriate for 7th grade English Language Arts students. The questions assess students' comprehension of key plot events, character development, and thematic elements from the novel's conclusion. Students need strong reading comprehension skills to track multiple character arcs, understand cause-and-effect relationships between events, and analyze character motivations and conflicts. The quiz requires students to distinguish between significant and minor details, evaluate character decisions and their consequences, and recognize the novel's central themes about social class, violence, family bonds, and finding common ground across social divisions. To succeed, students must demonstrate literal comprehension of plot sequences, inferential thinking about character relationships, and understanding of how the author resolves the central conflicts between the Greasers and Socs. This quiz was created by a classroom teacher who designed it for students studying 7th grade literature. The comprehensive nature of this assessment makes it highly effective for reviewing the novel's conclusion before a unit test or final project. Teachers can use this quiz as a formative assessment to gauge student understanding of critical plot developments, character growth, and thematic resolution before moving to more complex analytical writing tasks. It works particularly well as homework following class discussion of these chapters or as a warm-up activity to begin lessons focused on the novel's themes and literary devices. The detailed questions support instruction by reinforcing key story elements that students will need to reference in essays about character development, social conflict, and coming-of-age themes. This assessment aligns with Common Core standards RL.7.1, RL.7.2, and RL.7.3, which require students to cite textual evidence, determine themes, and analyze character development and plot structure.

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Because of his injuries during the fire, who was in the hospital with a broken back and third degree burns?

Dally
Johnny
Pony
Soda

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Because of his injuries during the fire, who was in the hospital with a badly burned arm that he would eventually have full use of again?

Dally 
Johnny
Pony
Soda

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

After reading the newspaper article written about them, Ponyboy learns all of the following EXCEPT

Johnny will be charged with manslaughter.
Dally was considered a hero for saving Johnny.
Ponyboy will need to appear in Juvenile Court for running away.  
Bob's funeral would be at the high school. 

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.2

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Johnny had a nightmare about his mom and dad's funeral (like he has had before) that scared him and awakened him in a cold sweat.  

True
False

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

The next day after returning home with his brothers, Pony cleans the house and goes to the hospital with Cherry to see Johnny and Darry.

True
False

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

On the way to the hospital, Pony runs into and talks with?

Dally
Marcia
Bob's parents
Randy

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

According to Randy, Bob wanted (and needed) 

to go away to college.
to kill Ponyboy that night in the park.
someone, like his parents, to say no to him.
to marry Cherry.  

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

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